C Programming
Deep Understanding: 70 hours
This course covers the concepts of structured programming using C programming language.
This course is designed to familiarize students to the techniques of programming in C.
Course Contents
Problem analysis, Algorithms and Flowchart, Coding, Compilation and Execution, History of C, Structure of C program, Debugging, Testing and Documentation
C Standards (ANSI C and C99), C Character Set, C Tokens, Escape sequence, Delimiters, Variables, Data types (Basic, Derived, and User Defined), Structure of a C program, Executing a C program, Constants/Literals, Expressions, Statements and Comments
Conversion specification, Reading a character, Writing a character, I/O operations, Formatted I/O
Arithmetic operator, Relational operator, Logical or Boolean operator, Assignment operator, Ternary operator, Bitwise operator, Increment or Decrement operator, Conditional operator, Special operators (sizeof and comma), Evaluation of Expression, Operator Precedence and Associativity
Conditional Statements, Decision Making and Branching, Decision Making and Looping, Exit function, Break and Continue
Introduction to Array, Types of Array (Single Dimensional and Multidimensional), Declaration and Memory Representation of Array, Initialization of array, Character Array and Strings, Reading and Writing Strings, Null Character, String Library Functions (string length, string copy, string concatenation, string compare)
Library Functions, User defined functions, Function prototype, Function call, and Function Definition, Nested and Recursive Function, Function Arguments and Return Types, Passing Arrays to Function, Passing Strings to Function, Passing Arguments by Value, Passing Arguments by Address, Scope, visibility and lifetime of a variable, Local and Global Variable
Introduction, Array of structure, Passing structure to function, Passing array of structure to function, Structure within structure (Nested Structure), Union, Pointer to structure
Introduction, The & and * operator, Declaration of pointer, Chain of Pointers, Pointer Arithmetic, Pointers and Arrays, Pointers and Character Strings, Array of Pointers, Pointers as Function Arguments, Function Returning pointers, Pointers and Structures, Dynamic Memory Allocation
Concept of File, Opening and closing of File, Input Output Operations in File, Random access in File, Error Handling in Files
Laboratory Works
This course requires a lot of programming practices. Each topic must be followed by a practical session. Some practical sessions include programming to: Create, compile and run simple C programs; handle different data types available in C; perform arithmetic operations in C; perform formatted input and output operations; perform character input and output operations; perform logical operations; create decision making programs; create loops to repeat task; create user-defined functions; create recursive functions; work with automatic, global and static variables; create and manipulate arrays and matrices (single and multi-dimensional); work with pointers; dynamically allocate and de-allocate storage space during runtime; manipulate strings (character arrays) using various string handling functions; create and use structures and files to keep record of students, employees etc.